For the solo reading, I chose Amy Tan's The Joy Lucky Club. I will jot down direct quotes, build a timeline, or write my thoughts.
Characters:
Mothers and Daughters:
1. Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei "June" Woo
2. An-mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan
3. Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong
4. Ying-ying St. Clair and Lena St. Clair
The doctor said she died of cerebral aneurysm. And her friends at the Joy Luck Club said she died just like a rabbit: quickly and with unfinished business left behind (19).
I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place (19).
The Joy Luck Club was founded by the narrator's mother in San Francisco 1949 two years before she was born.
My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies thy had left behind in China and the hopes they couldn't begin to express in their fragile English. Or at least, my mother recognized the numbness in these women's faces. And she saw how quickly their eyes moved when she told them her idea for the Joy Luck Club (20).
The moss metaphor on page 21.
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